ISSUE 36

Sibs & Kids Weekend Photo Page, A6

LANTHORN

at Lanthorn.com

Grand Valley Lanthorn

Grand Valley State University

www.lanthorn.com

Monday, January 25, 2010

Campus Dining health violations support results of soft drink sanitation study Virginia study finds soft drink dispensers often harbor E. coli, other fecal bacteria

By Samantha Butcher GVL Staff Writer

Courtesy Photo / DPS

With snow covering the lines in parking lots, DPS has seen increased problems with triple parking and cars getting blocked in. Officers and grounds staff at GVSU encourage drivers to pay attention to the pylons used to mark rows in campus lots.

DPS, campus grounds staff undaunted by ice, snow University staff works to improve winter road conditions, prevent ‘triple parking’ in lots

By Chelsea Lane GVL News Editor

It is 5 a.m. While most of Grand Valley State University sleeps, Department of Public Safety Officer Paul Weaver sets traffic cones in the university parking lots to mark out the parking rows. Each morning, Weaver and a team of student workers put out about 200 pylons.

“I could tell you where every line is,” Weaver said.

Vehicle crashes and slip-andfall accidents consistently increase when snowy weather hits campus, and Weaver is just one of the many university staff members who help GVSU gear up for winter.

In the 2009 calendar year, DPS logged 15 crashes during icy or snowy weather. Reports are taken only when damage occurred, and Weaver said the numbers were low compared to Allendale Township as a whole. Those statistics also show a drastic decrease from 2008, when

DPS reported 53 crashes during fit into an empty space. The cluster similar environmental conditions. of improperly parked cars often DPS studies these yearly statistics blocks in other cars or takes up extra and researches what safety methods space in the lots. nearby colleges employ to learn DeHaan said triple parking is how to improve road conditions and a problem in faculty and student reduce the number of accidents on lots alike and there have been past campus. instances where more than five Weaver said cars were blocked winter crashes are in as a result. He “ ... sometimes typically one-vehicle advised drivers to people think we’re “be considerate of incidents and usually occur when drivers do not taking our jobs others” by making not drive according sure they are seriously and to weather and road properly aligned it’s quite the conditions. with the traffic cones “Weather doesn’t when parking. opposite ... ” cause a crash; it’s As for the lots KEN STANTON people driving too themselves, GVSU GVSU GROUNDS fast for the conditions employs 11 full-time SUPERVISOR of the roadway,” he grounds workers said. who clear snow and The majority of crashes occur ice from parking lots and walkways. in campus parking lots, usually at Most grounds staff work from 6:30 90-degree intersections or when a.m. to 3 p.m., with extra shifts and drivers are backing out. workers added as needed.

But Capt. Brandon DeHaan, Grounds Supervisor Ken Stanton, assistant director of DPS, said one said the grounds team’s first priority is of the biggest winter challenges his clearing roads, sidewalks, commuter department faces is “triple parking.” lots and building entrances before Triple parking occurs when drivers moving on to housing lots. The park outside the lines after a team also sprays a non-freezing snowfall, causing other drivers to See Snow, A2 also park incorrectly if they want to

It is no secret fountain drinks are far from nutritious, but could they also be hazardous to your health?

Machine-dispensed sodas may be cheap and convenient, but according to researchers at Hollins University in Virginia, they could also contain fecal bacteria. The study, published in the January 2010 issue of the “International Journal of Food Microbiology,” found that 48 percent of drinks tested contained E. coli, staphylococcus (staph) and five other bacteria strains linked to human and animal waste.

Researchers also found most of the bacteria were resistant to at least one of 11 common antibiotics.

“These findings suggest that soda fountain machines may harbor persistent communities of potentially pathogenic microorganisms, which may contribute to episodic gastric distress in the general population and could pose a more significant health risk to immunocompromised individuals,” the study’s abstract reads. “These findings have important public

health implications and signal the need for regulations enforcing hygienic practices associated with these beverage dispensers.”

Ninety samples were taken from 30 soda fountains in a 22-mile wide section of Roanoke Valley in Virginia. Researchers would not name the fast food restaurants and convenience stores they obtained the samples from, but said they included “all the typical places you would go to get a soda.”

The study suggested several causes for the contamination, but researchers thought the most likely cause would be a build up of bacteria in the plastic tubing inside of the machines.

Aaron Baxter, an assistant professor of microbiology at Grand Valley State University, said the results of the study were not surprising.

“Any situation in which a system is not constantly flushed or cleaned could potentially develop a biofilm of bacteria,” he said. “This biofilm typically provides protection to the organisms and makes them fairly difficult to remove.”

While the study only focused on businesses near Roanoke, Va., researchers said they believe the problem of contamination is not limited to their area.

Currently, Michigan food law requires restaurants to clean the

See Soft Drinks, A2

GVL / Brian B. Sevald

A recent study has found soft drink dispensers, if not cleaned properly, are apt to harbor microorganisms such as E. coli. GVSU has had several critical violations stemming from their fountain drink machines since September 2007, according to the Ottawa County Health Department.

Student launches petition to expand bus routes

By Molly Waite GVL Staff Writer

For many students at Grand Valley State University, the commute to class is a short bus ride from Grand Rapids or a quick walk across campus. But for students who

INDEX News..................A3 Opinion...............A4 Laker Life.............A5 Photo Page..........A6 Sports.................B1 A & E.....................B4 Marketplace.......B5

live and work in the Grand Haven, available to them whatsoever. Thus Muskegon and Tri-City areas, the far, the feedback from the Grand trip to school is time-consuming and Haven area is very supportive. Most a considerable expense. people would be happy even if there After being stranded on campus was only one bus that ran five times with a dead car battery and no a day.” way to get home to Erin Babson, Grand Haven last operations manager “ ... I know that I fall, junior Kaitlyn Pew Campus would be thrilled to for Lemon decided to and Regional write a petition that have an opportunity Centers, supports an would expand The extension of the bus to buy a bus pass Rapid bus route routes, recognizing in place of the to the east side of the number of issues Allendale, improving expenses of gas and surrounding crossthe commute for county travel and parking permits.” students, faculty and cost.

KAITLYN LEMON staff.

In February 2007, GVSU JUNIOR “The main reason Ottawa County was for the petition awarded a Service is to get the word out and raise Development and New Technology awareness,” Lemon said. “If you Grant from the Michigan Department live on campus, you don’t realize of Transportation. The grant is how many people have to commute being utilized to complete a needs every day. I designed the petition assessment and feasibility study of to get the idea out that there are a commuter and transit services in the lot of students who live in this area West Michigan area, creating a group and there is no transportation system called the West Michigan Transit

Linkages. Babson said GVSU serves on a committee of stakeholders from all across West Michigan to expand the bus system.

“We have been looking at this for a while,” Babson said. “We knew we wouldn’t have enough demand or operations to support it ourselves, so we are trying to partner with these other people including Holland/ Muskegon community liaisons. We are hopeful.”

It was suggested to Lemon she write a letter of support for WMTL, but she felt drafting a petition would raise more awareness of the issue.

“I want people to be aware and I hope that the petition will generate enough interest that people will be willing to support WMTL,” Lemon said. “If someone stops, reads the petition and thinks that it is a

See Petition, A2

Courtesy Map / Google Images

The proposed new bus route would expand The Rapid service west of campus.

A2

NEWS

Monday, January 25, 2010

Snow continued from page A1

liquid de-icer on sidewalks if they anticipate snowfall, a more environmentally friendly agent than road salt that also works at colder temperatures.

Stanton said he understands this priority system may upset people in campus housing, but the team must balance plowing

priorities with the number of available workers.

“The priority is for people to be able to go to class first,” Stanton said. “We could add a lot more staff members but somebody’d have to pay for that. One of the things that makes tuition affordable is that we don’t have a lot of staff here.”

In addition to university workers, the grounds team also employs student workers and outside contractors to help out during storms or particularly poor conditions.

Contracted student groups also shovel

snow and use their salaries for fundraising. Currently, the GVSU rowing team clears building entrances and walkways in the mornings.

Stanton, now in his 13th winter at GVSU, acknowledged his team takes some criticism, particularly when students feel the university should have closed on a snowy day.

However, he is also proud of the many compliments and awards GVSU receives for its campus.

“We receive our knocks and a lot of people see what we do,” he said.

“We’re very visible. But sometimes people think we’re not taking our jobs seriously and it’s quite the opposite ... I just take it in stride. But it kind of hurts when everyone’s been in here working for 12 hours.” news@lanthorn.com

Grand Valley Lanthorn

Soft Drinks continued from page A1

nozzles on fountain drink machines nightly, but they do not provide any guidelines for how often the plastic tubing in the machines needs to be cleaned. The health departments leave that decision to the machine manufacturers, who generally require the tubing to be cleaned monthly.

The research team found nine-out-of-10 restaurants did not clean the tubing at all.

Rebecca Long, an environmental health specialist for the Ottawa County Health Department, said inspectors do not check the tubing during their inspections.

“If the study were to have any impact on our codes, the changes would have to start higher up on the chain,” Long said. “The state of Michigan inspects off of the 2005 Federal Food Code, so first they would have to make a change and then we would adapt our code

Petition continued from page A1

good idea, then that is a success.

Getting the knowledge out there is the important part.”

While Lemon recognizes the cost of expanding the bus route could be difficult to offset, she said she believes the social, economical and environmental benefits of public transportation are far more significant. Lemon suggested charging a small fee for bus passes.

“It doesn’t have to be free,” Lemon said. “The fact that the buses are free is dumbfounding.

I’ve never lived anywhere where it was free to take the bus. But I know that I would be thrilled to have an opportunity to buy a bus pass in place of the expenses of gas and parking

to reflect those changes.”

GVSU has had several critical violations stemming from their fountain drink machines since September 2007, according to restaurant inspection reports on the Ottawa County Web site.

In August 2009, the Pepsi machine at Einstein Bros. Bagels had “debris accumulating on the plastic lip along the funnel where ice comes out,” and a machine in the Commons had visible debris on the nozzle.

Kleiner has also had problems keeping their ice dispensers up to code. They were cited in October 2009 and October 2008 for slime and mold build up inside the machine. All four violations were corrected within the 10-day period between the health department’s initial and follow-up inspections, and Long added GVSU has been cooperative in the past.

Campus Dining did not

return requests for comment.

“There are a number of critical violations that people can be written up for,” said Bridie Bereza, a public information officer for the Kent County Health Department.

“Some are worse than others and many restaurants have received them. Most people are good about getting them fixed. Some violations are more critical than others, but we just have to make sure that we keep up on it so that people aren’t getting sick from the food they’re eating.”

Researchers added the levels of bacteria found in the drinks, approximately 500 colony-forming units per milliliter, would cause stomach discomfort at worst in a healthy person.

“Although kind of gross, the potential for these E. coli to cause disease are very low,” Baxter said. sbutcher@lanthorn.com

permits.”

Overall, Lemon has seen a large number of positive reactions to the petition and the idea of extending public transportation to a greater population, with her petition garnering 151 signatures so far. Lemon said she only had one person, a Grand Rapids resident, tell her that he would not sign the petition because he considered it a waste of tuition money.

The petition can be accessed online at http://www. petitiononline.com/gvsuride/ petition.html or on the SCDI Facebook page. Comments can also be posted by signatories, the majority of which are students.

“Although expanding the system to include these areas might seem like a costly undertaking, consider the money and resources that would be spared by eliminating the need for dozens (perhaps more) of students to make the drive independently,” wrote signatory Lauren Beachum.

Norman Christopher, executive director of the Sustainable Community Development Initiative, said he recognizes the importance of public transportation in reducing the university’s carbon footprint. Christopher added he is very pleased with the increasing student and faculty interest in improving the public transit system in and around GVSU campuses.

The partnership between GVSU and The Rapid is not only beneficial to the university sustainability efforts, but Babson said it is also extremely profitable for the ridership.

According to bus records,

in 2008-09, students saved approximately $18,183,696 in auto operation costs, $3,651,197 in fuel costs and 1,567,560 gallons of gas.

Emily Martin, graduate assistant for SCDI, rides the bus every day. After selling her car a year ago, Martin now relies on the bus to get her where she needs to go.

“There is currently very little in the way of regional transportation,” Martin said. “If a more regional transportation system were developed, trips between these cities would not require privately-owned vehicles. This provides greater access for those without vehicles. It also would reduce vehicle miles traveled, which would reduce air pollution and greenhouse gas emissions.”

To Lemon and 151 other members of the community, making public services better is an important part of what makes GVSU one of the most popular universities in the state. Lemon said she will keep the WMTL updated on the petition so they know how many people are interested and can decided if there is enough need to extend the bus route.

“I’m not making guarantees that this is the best idea, but it is something worth being considered,” she said. “We’re a really good school and we should always work to make the system better. We already know that the best way to move large amounts of people is by public transportation. We’re not Europe. We don’t have highspeed rails. But we do have the opportunity to expand and improve the transit system.” mwaite@lanthorn.com

Lanthorn Photo Store

Get photos of your favorite sports, campus events, entertainment and more...

Prices start at

$12

Photos available in a variety of sizes from 4x6 prints to 16x20 posters

Reprints available on: •T-shirts •Magnets •Playing Cards •Mugs •Mousepads

Grand Valley Lanthorn Volume 44, Number 36 The Grand Valley Lanthorn is published twice-weekly

by Grand Valley State University students 62 times a year. One copy of this newspaper is available free of charge to any member of the Grand Valley Community.

For additional copies, please contact our business offices.

POSTMASTER: Please send form 3579 to Grand Valley Lanthorn, 0051 Kirkhof, Grand Valley State University, Allendale, MI, 49401

EDITORIAL STAFF

Editor in Chief JENNY WHALEN Managing Editor LAUREN FITCH News Editor CHELSEA LANE Assistant News Editor ANYA ZENTMEYER Sports Editor EMANUEL JOHNSON Arts and Entertainment Editor HALEY OTMAN Laker Life Editor SUSIE SKOWRONEK Photography Editor BRIAN SEVALD

Photo Project Manager LUKE HOTWAGNER Copy Editors JESSICA PAWLOWSKI BRADY CARLA LANDHUIS Layout Editor MARIANA SAUCEDO Layout Staff ANDREA COLF ALANA HOLLAND MEGAN FLYNN Web Team JON ROOST CJ RAFTERY ERIN VICKERS JOSH KOVACH

Web Managing Editor DAN MICHNIEWICZ

ADVERTISING STAFF

Advertising Manager LINDSAY PARKINSON Assistant Advertising Manager REBECCA DEBONO Advertising Reps DANIEL DELAMIELLEURE MINDY BLUHM Advertising Designers MATT TYNDALL VALENTINA VALDES

BUSINESS STAFF

Business Manager ERIC LEE Assistant Business Manager FERRIS JUMAH Distribution DAVE BABCOCK JEFF DIMITRIEVSKI CHRIS ROWELL THOMAS LEE JASON TERPSTRA JASON LEIBY Receptionists KIM SANDER CARIAN WHITE Faculty Adviser LAWRENCE BEERY

The Grand Valley Lanthorn is published under the authorization of the GVSU Newspaper Advisory Board.

Corrections

In the Jan. 21 issue of the Lanthorn a photo was mistakenly credited to Delta Upsilon. The photo was taken by Brian B. Sevald.

NEWS

Chelsea Lane, News Editor news@lanthorn.com

GVL DIGEST News in Brief

President’s Ball tickets now on sale at 20/20 desk Tickets are now on sale for the Grand Valley State University Student Senate 24th annual Presidents’ Ball.

The ball will be Feb. 5 with the theme “An Evening of Crystal Elegance.”

This event will be held at the DeVos Place in downtown Grand Rapids, 303 Monroe Avenue NW. The dinner will start at 6:30 p.m. and the dance will start at 8:30 p.m.

Limited tickets will be available for presale only at the 20/20 desk in the Kirkhof Center.

The price for the dinner and program is $30 and the price for just the dance is $10.

Students monitor health at free clinic The Fitness and Wellness Center will host a free body fat check clinic in the Rec Center on Tuesday.

The event will last from 4 p.m. to 7 p.m. and will be run by health professionals.

Students are encouraged to wear shorts and a T-shirt for the three-site skinfold test.

Last Laker Standing auditions begin Spotlight Productions is holding auditions for its comedy competition Last Laker Standing.

Students and faculty interested in performing a five- to seven-minute stand up act can e-mail comdeygv@ gmail.com to reserve a spot.

The auditions will be held 7 p.m. to 9 p.m. today and 8 p.m. to 10 p.m. Thursday in Kirkhof room 2201.

The top 10 will perform on Feb. 12 for three judges and their fellow students, who will vote on the top five.

Finalists will then deliver a longer show on Feb. 26. The top three comedians will win prizes totaling $1,000.

Leadership Award to recognize senior Nominations for the Kenneth R. Venderbush Student Leadership Award are due in the Dean of Students Office (202 STU) no later than 5 p.m. on Feb. 12.

The Kenneth R. Venderbush Student Leadership Award will be presented to a senior at the Awards Banquet on April 12.

Candidates must be a senior enrolled Fall and/or Winter Semester, demonstrate a significant contribution to student life through volunteer student representation, committee involvement, student organization leadership, residence hall leadership or athletic leadership and participation and finally be in good academic standing.

Nominations can be made for this award by visiting http://www.gvsu.edu/dos.

Click on “Forms,” then select the “Kenneth R. Venderbush Award Nomination Form.”

The nomination should be sent in a sealed envelope marked “Confidential” and indicate that the nomination is for the Kenneth R. Venderbush Award.

Career Fashion Show gives tips on attire Career Services and other campus offices have teamed up to bring students the Career Fashion Show, The fashion show is designed to teach students how to purchase, pair and wear professional attire.

The event will feature various giveaways and chances to win free clothing.

Grand Valley State University students will model different styles of professional dress and offer tips on how to use community resources to purchase similar styles at a low-cost.

The show is Wednesday from 4-6 p.m. in the Loosemore Auditorium on the Pew Campus.

Grand Valley Lanthorn Monday, January 25, 2010

A3

Professor ‘excited’ to build GVSU interfaith program as new director

By Anya Zentmeyer GVL Assistant News Editor

Professor Douglas Kindschi has always felt drawn to science and religion, even before his 33-year employment at Grand Valley State University. Combine that with a hefty repertoire in administration, and it only seems natural Kindschi has been appointed the new director of the Kaufman Interfaith Institute.

What started as JewishChristian dialogue under Sylvia Kaufman made its way to GVSU, where it added the Muslim religion and became an institute formed in the name of an annual conference in regards to religious dialogue.

Kindschi started his education at the University of Chicago, where he took undergraduate classes in mathematics and philosophy and eventually studied at the divinity school there. After a one-year foray to Europe with his now wife of 47 years, Kindschi resumed his studies at the University of Wisconsin,

w h e r e he got involved in campus ministry and led faculty and graduate discussions on science Kindschi a n d religion.

GVSU was Kindschi’s second serious university job, and he arrived as the dean of cluster college No. 4, back when GVSU was still getting started.

“I’ve always enjoyed building programs,” Kindscki said. “I was director of academic planning at the institution before I came.

Being here during that building period was just a wonderful experience. After teaching for a few years, it’s going to be exciting for me to build a program, this time the Kaufman Interfaith Institute.”

In addition to the 20-some programs Kindschi developed as dean of science, he also served as project director

for the grant-funded “Grand Dialogue” for science and religion that has taken place annually since 2005.

“It’s been my premise that science and religion are two of the most powerful forces in our society,” Kindschi said. “There’s hardly an issue that doesn’t involve sciencewhether it is war or peace – and there’s hardly an issue that doesn’t involve religion.

Quite often, they are at odds.

The premise of the ‘Grand Dialogue’ is that we need to be talking to each other and finding ways that we can cooperate.”

Along with building another successful program – the best aspect of administration, he mused - Kindschi said he would like to see more GVSU community members, students specifically, involved with the dialogue.

“It’s so obvious that we are now living in a multi-cultural, multi-religious world and students are going to be facing interfaith issues for the rest of their lives,” Kindschi said. “If they can get an understanding

of this and a grounding of this here at the university I think it will serve them well.”

Kindschi will travel next month to Jerusalem to attend an interfaith seminar that will bring the three religions – Christianity, Judaism and Islam – all together to discuss the relationship among them. He said he hopes from this he can create his own “pilgrimage to Jerusalem,” bringing a group of people from each respective religion to experience the stomping grounds of all three.

On a deeper level, Kindschi just hopes he can stir up a sense of acceptance and understanding between the three religions as a way of promoting political and social peace.

“One of our themes is facilitating greater interfaith understanding and mutual acceptance,” he said. “If I can understand someone who is a Muslim, and not only that, but if I can learn to accept what they are saying and get involved with dialogue to the extent that I can find

at their deepest level that maybe there is something that resonates with my faith and my deepest level. That’s the premise with dialogue. It’s not that we find the lowest common denominator or believe the same thing, that’s too easy. What we want to do is go as deep as possible into our own traditions and our own understandings that we find something that resonates with somebody else’s deep understanding.”

Outside of work, Kindschi enjoys being a husband, father of four and visiting his cottage on Lake Michigan.

He has a passion for classical music and a habit for worldwide travel – mostly to visit his eldest daughter and grandchildren, who all reside in Germany.

“I am excited to get back into building a program and seeing if those programs can’t have impact on students and faculty and beyond that the whole community,” Kindschi said. “I still have a lot of energy.” assistantnews@lanthorn.com

Experts to debate health care reform

By Mark Couturier GVL Staff Writer

For those struggling to take a position on the proposed overhaul of the nation’s health care, the Hauenstein Center for Presidential Studies is offering a summit on Thursday and Friday to help separate fact from fiction in opposing arguments.

Kalahn Taylor-Clark of the Brookings Institute will start the event with a keynote address at 2:30 p.m.

Thursday in the CookDeWitt Center.

TaylorClark said the debate Taylor-Clark should be useful and informative for students and faculty members.

“I just think there is very little knowledge out there about what this bill does and does not do,” Taylor-Clark said. “All of the participants are experts in their respective fields.”

A debate on the health care legislation will follow at 7 p.m. in the Loosemore Auditorium, with Taylor-Clark serving as moderator. Tim Noah of “Slate”

magazine will speak in favor of the legislation, and Michael Tanner of the Cato Institute and Thomas Miller of the American Enterprise Institute will take the opposing side.

Friday’s events will be held at the Loosemore Auditorium.

Marianne Udow-Phillips of the University of Michigan will give the keynote speech at 9 a.m. and two panels featuring representatives from health organizations in West Michigan and a faculty member of Grand Valley State University’s College of Health Professions will discuss the costs and benefits of the health care legislation.

Gleaves Whitney, director of the Hauenstein Center, said the recent political upset in Massachusetts, where Republican senator-elect Scott Brown defeated his opponent in a heavily Democratic state and won the seat formerly held by the late Sen. Ted Kennedy, has put the status of the legislation in jeopardy and changed the dynamics of the upcoming summit.

“Last Tuesday’s vote electrified the opposition to ObamaCare,” Whitney said. “...

The debate has just been dialed up, so our health care summit

later this week could not be happening at a better time.”

GVSU professor Steven Borders, who will participate in Friday’s panels, said although Tuesday’s events changed the situation and made it less likely the current health care legislation will pass both houses of Congress and end up on President Obama’s desk, there are still possibilities for meaningful reform.

“We still have plenty to talk about and there’s still an opportunity to salvage something,” Borders said.

“Significant problems with cost, quality and access still exist, and those problems will be addressed at the summit.”

Miller said it is important for students to come to the event and take part in decisions that may affect their futures.

“This isn’t just what’s going to happen tomorrow, these are bigger decisions that have farreaching implications for our country,” Miller said. “Young people are the real stakeholders in what politicians are proposing is good for them. This is their future being unfolded in front of them whether they choose to pay attention or not.” mcouturier@lanthorn.com

Health care reform summit schedule Thursday 2:30 p.m. – Keynote address (Cook-DeWitt Center) Keynote speaker: Kalahn Taylor-Clark, Brookings Institute 7 p.m. – Debate on proposed health care legislation (Loosemore Auditorium) Speakers: Tim Noah, “Slate” magazine, Thomas Miller, The American Enterprise Institute Michael Tanner, The Cato Institute Moderator: Kalahn TaylorClark

Friday All events take place at the Loosemore Auditorium, Pew Campus 9 a.m. – Keynote Address

Keynote Speaker: Marianne Udow-Phillips, director of the Center for Health Care Research and Transformation at the University of Michigan 9:30 a.m. – Panel I: What do we get out of reform?

11:30 a.m. – Panel II: How much does it cost?

Speakers: Mark Lemoine, director of System Government Affairs for Spectrum Health; David Blair from St. Mary’s Health Care in Grand Rapids; Steve Borders, associate professor of health care administration; Anne Rosewarn of the Muskegon Health Council; Vondie Woodbury of the Muskegon Community Health Project; David Paradis, former executive director of the Michigan Osteopathic Association

Student Scholars Day to present ‘inclusive picture of collaboration and learning’

By Samantha Butcher GVL Staff Writer

Despite its new name, Grand Valley State University’s Student Scholars Day will retain its dedication to showcasing student achievement.

The event has been held on the second Wednesday of April since 1996, when the event was known as Student Research Day and catered to science and mathematics majors.

After two successful years, the event was expanded to all students in 1998 and the name changed to Student Scholarship Day. It underwent a third name change in fall 2009, this time to clarify the day’s purpose.

“It’s still very focused on student work, but the new name (Student Scholars Day) takes away any ambiguity about what the purpose of the day is,” said Susan Mendoza, director of Integrative Learning in the College of Interdisciplinary Studies.

The previous name had caused confusion, as the event does not offer monetary

awards. Instead, the day is intended to give students an opportunity to share their creative and scholarly work with others in the academic community.

The event will be held on April 14 from 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. in Henry Hall and the Kirkhof Center, and Integrative Learning expects it will showcase more than 400 presentations by more than 600 students. Registration opens today and closes at 11:59 p.m. on Feb. 12.

Student Scholars Day is willing to accommodate any type of presentation, with most presentations taking the form of posters, live performances, film screenings, art exhibitions, oral presentations and panel discussions. Participants are required to have a faculty mentor for their work.

“GVSU encourages all students to consider enhancing their personal and professional development by engaging in scholarly and creative work with faculty and sharing your work with the GVSU community,” as stated on the Student Scholars

Day Web site.

Last year’s presentations spanned from “Predicting Cosmic Surgery Attitudes among College Women” to “A Nutrition Intervention to Improve Diet Quality Meals Served to Homeless Men,” and organizers encouraged attendees to focus on the presentations that interest them and to engage student presenters in thoughtful discussions.

In the 2009 abstract book, Neal Rogness and Shelley Sickrey explained the value of the event, which has remained intact throughout the event’s conceptual changes.

“The event continues to encompass interdisciplinary relations among the presentations,” they said.

“Individually, the presentation is clear and focused. Taken as a whole, a larger, more inclusive picture of collaboration and learning emerges.”

Students and faculty interested in participating can visit http://www.gvsu.edu/ssd/ or call the Office of Integrative Learning at (616) 331-8100 for more information. sbutcher@lanthorn.com

Courtesy Photo / Facebook

About 600 students displayed 400 research projects in Henry Hall and the Kirkhof Center during last year’s Student Scholarship Day.

A4

OPINION

Grand Valley Lanthorn Monday, January 25, 2010

editorial@lanthorn.com

EDITORIAL CARTOON

EDITORIAL

Beyond Haiti While the situation in Haiti demands relief at the present, would-be supporters must use Haiti as the example rather than the singular success in the process of delivering natural disaster aid.

For all the biblical tales of good Samaritans and the golden rules of childhood, identifying and delivering aid to world nations continues to be a selfish and selective process.

Natural disasters occur every day in varying intensities and affect every country on the planet. However, only a handful of these, which are especially devastating or timely, garner widespread attention and relief.

When the world learned of the earthquake in Haiti and the destruction it wreaked across the impoverished island nation, all manner of government, nonprofit and individual relief outfits rushed to aid victims of the devastation.

International relief efforts during the 2004 Indian Ocean earthquake, which struck 14 countries and is considered one of the deadliest natural disasters in history, were noticeably less.

In the case of the 2004 earthquake, the paperwork wasn’t waived for U.S. parents to immediately adopt children orphaned by the disaster and a text did not donate $10 to relief organizations.

The media covered the initial destruction with zeal but barely blinked when rebuilding efforts began and additional aid was sought.

The intensity and immediacy of aid for Haiti is commendable but only significant if it is illustrative of improvement in the organization of disaster relief and support for such efforts worldwide.

The speed and efficiency of relief efforts in the days following Haiti’s earthquake have long surpassed the progress made along America’s Gulf Coast in the weeks following Hurricane Katrina.

Yet, for all the benefit concerts, text donations and on-the-ground support, people should not view Haiti a one-time service project. Every year hundreds of nations around the world suffer some form of devastation by natural disaster.

Less than a dozen receive media attention and only one or two are lucky enough to receive any significant aid.

Were another 7.0-earthquake or tsunami to hit some Asian-Pacific nation tomorrow, would relief efforts there be comparable to those currently in Haiti?

Probably not, but there will be another disaster of similar or greater severity and the need for widespread, organized aid will arise again.

To continue to grow and progress as a global community, the response to Haiti must serve as an example for future relief efforts rather than a one-time success.

LETTER TO THE EDITOR

MLK memory urges peaceful conflict resolution In his Nobel Peace Prize acceptance speech, Martin Luther King Jr. made this statement, “...man must evolve for all human conflict a method which rejects revenge, aggression and retaliation.”

Even though I was unable to attend the services to honor this great man last week, I have grown to admire and appreciate his strength and conviction in pursuing a world where all men are treated as equals. I have heard it said that gay civil rights is our generation’s biggest task in maintaining the equality that this country establish so many years ago. Though I can not disagree with that sentiment, I do feel that we have overstepped our bounds in trying to protect the rights of one group and have begun to impinge upon the rights of others in the process. When discussing an individual’s right to maintain their sexual identity without oppression, great effort is made to support those

who wish to keep their gay identity while those who choose to modify their sexual identity are readily disparaged.

Not only that, but the manner in which such discussions take place often include caustic and vengeful words and attitudes.

I am not denying that injustices have been committed, but trying to vindicate a violent reverse oppression is counterproductive to the civil rights movement.

Not only that, but it dishonors the memory of a man who worked long and hard to create a peaceful resolution to oppression. As we continue down the road to developing a society of equality and acceptance, may we take to heart the lessons taught us by Martin Luther King Jr. and work out our differences in a peaceful manner, free from hatred and malice for each other.

Nathan Ruark GVL student

The student-run newspaper of Grand Valley State University

Editorial Page Board Jenny Whalen Eric Lee Lauren Fitch Chelsea Lane

Editor in Chief Business Manager Managing Editor News Editor

Valley Vote Should the construction of the new library be a top priority at GVSU?

Yes: 60% This week’s question: Should the Rapid bus route expand west through Allendale?

No: 40% Vote online at Lanthorn.com

GVL OPINION POLICY The ultimate goal of the Grand Valley Lanthorn opinion page is to stimulate discussion and action on topics of interest to the Grand Valley Community.

Student opinions do not reflect those of the Grand Valley Lanthorn.

The Grand Valley Lanthorn welcomes reader viewpoints and offers three vehicles of expression for reader opinions: letters to the editor, guest columns and phone responses.

Letters must include the author’s name and be accompanied by current picture identification if dropped off in person.

Letters will be checked by an employee of the Grand Valley Lanthorn.

Letters appear as space permits each

issue. The limit for letter length is one page, single spaced.

The editor reserves the right to edit and condense letters and columns for length restrictions and clarity.

All letters must be typed.

The Grand Valley Lanthorn will not be held responsible for errors that appear in print as a result of transcribing handwritten letters or e-mail typographic errors.

The name of the author may be withheld for compelling reasons.

The content, information and views expressed are not approved by nor necessarily represent those of the university, its Board of Trustees, officers, faculty and staff.

GVL / Jacob Bowen

YOUR INSIGHTS

Do you believe loyalty should have a place in college athletics?

I think the word loyalty is a term overused in college sports. The sports world is a business and each individual is entitled to do what’s best for themselves.

Although (Brian Kelly) was dubbed not loyal to the Bearcats, he was proposed the job of a lifetime as the head coach at Notre Dame.

It’s a business.

Take Derrick Rose for example. He left Memphis to go to the NBA. Some people might call that a character issue, but you’re going to risk the chance of injury by staying in college, which could ruin your career. It’s a personal choice.

Coaches are the one’s that recruit players. They make them promises and guarantee things, and when they up and leave like that, it’s like they just don’t care about their players. Brian Kelly is probably the biggest disloyal coach ever.

There used to be loyalty probably 20 or 25 years ago, but because of the way that money’s being distributed to the coaches, I think they have to go where the money is. They don’t have pension plans or money saved up so that they can eventually retire.

I believe that there is something to be said about loyalty in college athletics.

It’s where you make a name for yourself and build up a program. You can’t just leave for a bigger paycheck.

Stephen Shields Junior Geology Berkley, Mich.

Thomas Ortega Junior Criminal Justice Tinley Park, Ill.

Lamar Williams Junior Physical Education Muskegon, Mich.

Rory Rux Sophomore Broadcasting Chicago, Ill.

Joshua Armstrong Junior Physical Education Muskegon, Mich.

ASK GLEEVES

Obama success relies on departure from Washington ‘politics as usual’

By Gleaves Whitney GVL Guest Columnist

Question: How do you assess President Barack Obama’s first year in office?

— Megan Sall, 2009 master’s degree in Public Administration Answer: One year ago, Barack Obama rode into the White House on a powerful electoral wave. Independents and a surprising number of disgruntled Republicans and conservatives joined progressive Democrats to elect the nation’s first black president.

During the past 12 months, though, Obama got mugged by reality.

Unemployment, bailouts, war, diplomacy and terrorism taught Obama it’s easier to campaign than to govern. Our capable 44th president is learning charisma, hope and idealism go only so far.

Approval ratings for Obama’s policies dropped below50percent10months into his administration.

According to Rasmussen polling, two-thirds of Americans believed the nation was on the “wrong track” by Nov. 21, 2009.

The numbers have not moved appreciably since the holidays.

A look at Roper Center polling shows Americans historically have been quick to register frustration with their man in the White House. Indeed, since World War II, only one president’s approval rating never dropped below 50 percent. That rare accomplishment belongs

to John F. Kennedy.

The median number of months that the majority of Americans grow discontent with their president is 13 months after their inauguration.

Obama experienced majority disapproval some 10 months into his administration.

Given the Great Recession, two wars and the health-care battle on Capitol Hill, it is remarkable that our 44th president did not dive below 50 percent even sooner.

Obama will have to rely on more than charisma to have a successful presidency. Last week’s election in Massachusetts sent a warning to the White House. Voters in the “bluest of blue states” elected Republican Scott Brown to the Senate seat long held by liberal icon Ted Kennedy.

Consider that

only 14 months ago, Democrat Obama carried Massachusettsby26points.

Last week, Republican Brown won the statewide race by five points.

The dramatic 31-point turnaround reveals the anger Americans are directing at establishment politicians.

The people are fed up.

The same voters who, with good reason, threw the Republicans out of Congress in 2006 and out of the White House in 2008, repudiated the president’s party in Massachusetts last week.

Independents are in the saddle, and their message is clear: Incumbents had better abandon politics as usual, or independents will abandon them.

Gleaves Whitney is the director of Grand Valley’s Hauenstein Center for Presidential Studies.

GVL STUDENT OPINION

Misguided compliment or positive stereotype?

Nicole E. Avery GVL Columnist

In Monday’s edition of the Lanthorn you can find printed responses from students who were asked the question, “How have you been stereotyped?” in the “Your Insights” section on the Opinion page.

Of course there are obvious responses that jump to the forefront of my mind when I see/read the word stereotyped — skin color, race, hairstyles, clothing, accents — but being too smart?

Being stereotyped as someone who is good at math apparently upset one Grand Valley State

University student — “I always get people that think I’m really good at math. Honestly, I’m not bad, but they shouldn’t assume that.”

Was this student really complaining about people thinking she was too smart? I’m glad the student took the time to clarify she is somewhat smart or good at math but is not a genius and does not appreciate being stereotyped as such.

I have never in my life heard someone of a certain ethnic heritage complain about being stereotyped “smart.”

Maybe it’s just because there are loads of negative stereotypes on which people mainly focus.

I’ll apologize in advance for singling this

particular student out for her quote, but reading her response raised the question in my mind whether all stereotyping is really negative. Can people benefit from positive stereotypes, or because the fact is still untrue, would assuming something about another person ultimately have a negative affect?

If it’s not meant in an oppressive, negative way, why even waste your time complaining about it? If someone looked at me and said, “Wow, Nicole is biracial, I bet she is fantastic at bingo,” I would smile because that is a silly correlation and because I think of old people when I think of bingo — which is technically a stereotype.

It’s a free country, so it is everyone’s inherent, American right to complain about whatever they like, but it’s a proven, scientific fact you exert less energy and use less muscles when smiling as opposed to frowning.

My point is there are enough negative things to be upset about and I am not going to sit around and be offended by things that don’t really matter — it’s hard enough dealing with real racial or other types of offensive comments.

If someone thinks I have a certain skill, I’ll just accept his or her assumptions of my talents whether it’s entirely true or only “mostly” true and I’ll accept them as a compliment. navery@lanthorn.com

Susie Skowronek, Laker Life Editor lakerlife@lanthorn.com

LAKER LIFE

Grand Valley Lanthorn Monday, January 25, 2010

A5

Sibs & Kids Weekend brings childhood fun to campus Weekend of activities exposes younger siblings, kids to campus atmosphere

By Tracy Gershon GVL Staff Writer

The population of Grand Valley State University increased this weekend with the addition of hundreds of sibs and kids partaking in a long-standing campus tradition.

Sibs & Kids Weekend is an annual event sponsored by Spotlight Productions, with funding assistance from Student Senate and various cosponsors.

The two-day event, with “Free Time with Your Sibling” on Sunday, offers a vareity of entertainment options for GVSU students and their visitors to enjoy.

“It invites students to share their experience on campus with their younger siblings,” said Friederike Habbel, a student organizer for Sibs & Kids. “There are also a lot of different student groups which are volunteering or co-sponsoring events, which helps encourage interaction between the different

student organizations on campus.” long.

Events included movies in the Sophomore Kelsey Rauhut and Big Screen Movie Theater, a photo two of her cousins, Gleb and Nikita, booth, airbrush tattoos, a moon took part in the festivities. bounce and mini glow golf in “This is a good opportunity to see Kirkhof Center on Friday night. family and have them visit,” Rauhut On Saturday, guests enjoyed said. “They aren’t bored because attractions at the Fieldhouse Arena there are a lot of activities to keep such as bumper cars, a mechanical them entertained.” bull, a bungee run, a climbing wall Rauhut’s cousins said their and a magic show by favorite activity David Hall.

Friday night was the “(Family members) moon bounce because S a t u r d a y aren’t bored morning, kids stood they could jump and in line outside because there are do flips. They were the doors of the also excited for a lot of activities Fieldhouse Arena Saturday’s events, with their older especially bumper to keep them siblings or family cars and the bungee entertained.” members.

When run.

KELSEY RAUHUT the doors opened, “For my cousins, GVSU SOPHOMORE children flooded the they have no concept arena and raced to of what a college is, the front of the lines for Build-a- so it’s fun for them to see what it’s Bear and caricatures. like,” Rauhut said.

The Build-a-Bear workshop Spotlight Productions and was the most popular event of the representatives from Greek Life day with children lined up to make staffed the weekend’s events. stuffed hippos, dinosaurs, moose Volunteer Kelsey O’Dell said and bears. The workshop featured she had a positive experience miniature Laker apparel to dress the volunteering at Sibs & Kids stuffed creatures.

Weekend because it was fun to act Habbel said the weekend was like a kid again – eating snow cones a success because nothing broke and enjoying the games. down and the lines did not seem too tgershon@lanthorn.com

GVL / Eric Coulter

Participants dance for a video during the Sibs & Kids activities. The two-day event featured many forms of entertainment for the visiting family members.

Gift of Life Challenge works to register student organ donors Even with the competition increasing donor registrants, the need for transplants cannot always be met.

Despite the holiday season winding down, “Every day (in the U.S.) there are 75 people many students and staff remain in the giving who receive organ transplants, and 17 that spirit. This continued generosity should come die waiting for an organ that never comes,” in handy, as Grand Valley State University and Tislerics said.

15 other schools compete to sign up the most Despite a great demand for transplants, just people to the Michigan Organ Donor Registry. one person’s donation can save up to eight The annual Gift of Life Campus Challenge, lives, with the possibility of enhancing the which started Jan. 14 and ends Feb. 25, gives lives of up to 50 others. students the opportunity to save lives while Tislerics said the benefits of a donor’s gift go representing their schools, the importance of far beyond the person receiving the transplant. which is not lost on senior Lora Stevens, Gift “It’s a much more tremendous impact,” she of Life’s student leader at GVSU. said. “It’s not just the recipients. You’ve got a “You’re showing people that Grand Valley, mother who can raise her children thanks to a as a whole, cares about people and is willing to heart transplant. Or a kidney transplant might save lives,” Stevens, a registered donor, said. free a grandfather from his dialysis machine Stevens and other volunteers staff a donor and let him take his grandson fishing.” registry station in Kirkhof Center twice a A donor herself, Tislerics said she chose to week at varying dates and register because she felt it was “When I’m done times during the six-week the right thing to do. competition. with my organs and “When I’m done with my “People can stop by and organs and tissues, I would tissues, I would love learn about Gift of Life and love for other people to enjoy for other people even sign up,” Stevens said. their lives using them,” she Gift of Life, Michigan’s to enjoy their lives said. “I won’t need them.” federally-assigned organ and To sign up and credit using them. ” tissue donation program, GVSU, visit the competition’s JENNIFER TISLERICS started Campus Challenge Web site at http://www.

GIFT OF LIFE COORDINATOR in 2004 after drawing GiftOfLifeMichigan.org, click considerable interest from on the button to join the Donor student groups at the University of Michigan Registry and select the school’s name from the and Michigan State University. drop-down menu provided.

Initially, just the two schools competed gpelican@lanthorn.com against one another. In 2005, however, the competition went statewide when GVSU and several other schools joined.

Jennifer Tislerics, the special events and partnerships coordinator for Gift of Life, said she has a lot of hope for GVSU in the 2010 competition, thanks to its “passionate students.”

GVSU has participated in the challenge three times in the past – in 2005, 2006 and 2009 – totaling 645 registrations during that span.

In the 2009 competition, GVSU signed up 290 donors – the school’s best performance to date and good for third place – a total Tislerics and others hope to exceed.

So far, GVSU has registered 21 donors in 2010, a number that will need to increase to help the 2,921 Michigan patients currently waiting for transplants.

As the competition has progressed through the years, Tislerics said Campus Challenge has become “the single biggest event for increasing donor registration and educating people on organ donation.”

Since 2004, the challenge has prompted almost 22,000 people across the state to sign Courtesy Photo / giftoflifemichigan.org up on the donor registry.

Driver’s licenses note a registered organ donor.

By Garrett Pelican GVL Staff Writer

Courtesy Photo / callandresponse.com

Campus Ministries will show the film “Call and Response” to educate viewers on the slave trade.

Screening of ‘Call + Response’ calls for response to human trafficking Campus groups work to raise awareness of $32 billion modern slave trade affecting 2.2 million children

By Susie Skowronek GVL Laker Life Editor

Across 161 countries, 27 million people – a number greater than the Texas population – act as modern slaves due to the illegal practice of human trafficking, according to the Polaris Project, one of the largest anti-trafficking organizations with a presence in the U.S. and Japan.

Due to the prevalence of trafficking, which occurs even in the U.S., students have prepared an event to raise awareness of the criminal practice.

“Call + Response” (Fair Trade Pictures, 2008), a “rockumentary” film that uncovers secrets behind human trafficking, will show at 7 p.m. both Feb. 25 in the Grand River Room of the Kirkhof Center and Feb. 26 in the Loosemore Auditorium of DeVos Center.

The Christian Response Team, a division within Campus Ministry that extends volunteer opportunities on campus and around the Grand Rapids area, will host the event. The CRT also informs the community about global issues, such as human trafficking.

Human trafficking is the selling of humans for labor or sex exploitation.

“There are more people enslaved in the world today than any other time in history,” said

event coordinator Kari the open.”

Galbreath. “We believe that According to the film, the enormity of this issue more than 2.2 million crosses religious, cultural, children are sold into the and social barriers.” sex trade every year, and The film takes a non- in India, these children cost religious point of view, less than cattle. sharing the Galbreath perspectives said CRT “There are more of musical hopes to rally people enslaved a r t i s t s , students for in the world today the film and a c t o r s , p o l i t i c i a n s than any other time give them an and victims. understanding in history.”

P o p u l a r of the f i g u r e s e n s l a v e m e nt KARI GALBREATH m a k i n g that exists EVENT COORDINATOR appearances worldwide. i n c l u d e Vo l u n t e e r Natasha Bedingfield, organizations – the Five for Fighting and International Justice Switchfoot.

Mission, Invisible Children, According to the film, Women at Risk, Bethany traders made $32 billion on Christian and Free the Slaves human trafficking in 2007 – – will have representatives more than Nike, Google and at the event to recruit Starbucks combined. student volunteers.

“Slaves are being used “The goal of bringing for dirty and dangerous jobs, the film to GVSU is to and we need to face up to the raise awareness and to fact that western economies challenge our behaviors and are pushing the demand for institutions that perpetuate their exploitation,” said the modern slavery,” Galbreath members of musical group said.

Switchfoot in the film.

The filmmakers include “The U.N. Security Council a list of 33 responses, which has never even discussed the CRT will distribute at the question of slavery, the event. much less fulfilled its own Some responses include commitments to uphold purchasing fair trade goods, anti-slavery agreements.” encouraging companies to Galbreath said traders operate with fair practices escape notice because many and calling this issue people do not know about to the attention of state human trafficking. representatives.

“I feel like it’s such a To view a trailer of huge, global issue, and not the film, visit http:// a lot of people are aware c a l l a n d r e s p o n s e . c o m / of it,” she said. “Slaves are trailer.html. undercover – it’s not out in lakerlife@lanthorn.com

A6

PHOTO PAGE

Monday, January 25, 2010

Grand Valley Lanthorn

Sibs n Kids Weekend Current Lakers share campus with younger generations

GVL / Eric Coulter

A GVSU student takes his younger relatives around to enjoy the fun.

GVL / Eric Coulter

Kids interact with the magic show performed by David Hall in the Fieldhouse Arena on Saturday.

GVL / Eric Coulter

One youngster charges ahead in the bungee run offered in the Fieldhouse Arena.

GVL / Eric Coulter

Volunteers from several Greek organizations helped run the weekend’s events.

GVL / Eric Coulter

The athletically-inclined try out the rock wall as one of the many activities offered during this past Sibs & Kids Weekend.

Family fun: From rock climbing to face painting and a magic show, young visitors to GVSU found plenty of on-campus entainment options during the weekend.

GVL / Eric Coulter

Kids were invited to frost sugar cookies with a variety of sweet, colorful options.

GVL / Eric Coulter

GVSU sibs make spin art at an activity station included in the event’s package.

GVL / Eric Coulter Self-made wax hands were one of the souvenirs offered.

Visit Lanthorn. com for a slideshow See more:

GVL / Eric Coulter

Siblings pose for a caricature artist in Kirkhof.

SPORTS

Emanuel Johnson, Sports Editor sports@lanthorn.com

Dodgeball team returns to action

This past weekend, the Grand Valley State University dodgeball team participated in a tournmanent hosted by Ohio State University. The Lakers came away with first place, but gave up two points in the first round to Central Michigan University in the process. It was the first time in six years that the team had given up multiple points in a single game. Other participants included Michigan State University and the University of Miami-Ohio. The Lakers will next see action when they participate in the Michigan Dodgeball Cup tournament in February.

GLIAC Standings Men’s Basketball North Division

Grand Valley St. Saginaw Valley Lake Superior St. Ferris St. Northern Michigan Michigan Tech

South Division Findlay Wayne St. Hillsdale Ashland Northwood Tiffin

Conf. Ovr. 10-2 9-3 9-3 8-4 4-8 3-9

14-3 12-5 11-6 10-7 7-9 4-13

10-2 6-6 5-7 4-8 4-8 0-12

14-3 8-8 5-11 8-9 7-9 1-16

Women’s Basketball Conf. Ovr. North Division Michigan Tech Grand Valley St. Northern Michigan Lake Superior St. Ferris St. Saginaw Valley

South Division Findlay Hillsdale Ashland Northwood Tiffin Wayne St.

11-1 11-1 9-3 6-6 4-8 2-10

16-1 14-3 12-5 9-7 5-12 4-13

8-4 7-5 6-6 4-8 2-10 2-10

13-4 7-9 10-7 8-8 5-12 4-13

Courtesy www.gliac.org

Men’s basketball beats Northwood University, Wayne State before returning home for game this Thursday against University of Findlay

By Jared Greenleaf GVL Senior Reporter

Through the course of the Grand Valley State University men’s basketball team’s current winning streak, team defense has played a key role in the team’s success.

This past weekend, evidence of that role again emerged as GVSU finished its road trip a perfect 4-0 with victories over Northwood University and Wayne State University.

Capping that final victory, however, was no easy task. The Lakers fell into a 21-4 hole early in the first half against Wayne State on Saturday before rallying in the second half to pull off a come-from-behind 57-48 victory.

“I’m just really proud of how they hung in there (Saturday),” said GVSU head coach Ric Wesley. “It didn’t look good early on, but our guys just kept gutting it out and they didn’t lose faith in each other. I was very inspired by their effort.”

After trailing 28-17 at halftime, the Lakers (14-3, 10-2 GLIAC) began their comeback with an 11-0 run to take a one-point lead with 8:15 left in the game.

With the game tied 48-48 and four minutes remaining, the Lakers capped their comeback with a 9-0 run to close out the game.

Sophomore guard Alvin Storrs, who had 12 points to go with seven steals, provided the defensive energy to help spark the team’s late-game energy.

“Alvin was just phenomenal for us,” Wesley said. “Generally we try to get 25 deflections as a team,

and he had 14 as an individual, which just showed how active he was and how much he disrupts the other team’s offense.”

Freshman guard Breland Hogan, who scored all eight of his points in the second half, said team chemistry on defense has been great through the Lakers’ 10-game winning streak.

“We know when we get in there, we’ve got to up the intensity,” he said. “Every night we try to go out there and get stops. Getting stops is what’s winning games for us.”

After shooting an abysmal 17.4 percent in the first half, the Lakers bounced back with a 68.4 percent effort, outscoring the Warriors 4020 in the final 20 minutes.

Before Saturday’s matchup, the Lakers defense helped in a 64-55 win over Northwood.

After a close first half with both

In two of the more tightly contested games of this season, the Grand Valley State University women’s basketball team capped off its four-game road trip with victories over Northwood University (79-75) and Wayne State University (69-61).

The Lakers (14-3, 11-1 GLIAC) found themselves in tight situations in each contest.

Against Northwood, the team clung to a slim two-point lead with just more than a minute left in the game. Fortunately, the Lakers made all of their free throws to hang on for the win.

On Saturday, the Warriors found a way to chop an 11-point lead down to three points with 7:30 left in the game. From that point, the Lakers managed to let up 11 points for the rest of the game while scoring 16 of their own.

Instead of being bothered by these sticky situations, however, GVSU head coach Janel Burgess said it is such scenarios that help the team grow.

Grand Valley State vs Wayne State

GVSU 57, WAYNE STATE 48 GVSU (14-3,10-2 GLIAC) GVSU............................ 17 40 - 57 Wayne State................. 28 20 - 48 Toreau Brown 4-10 4-7 12; Alvin Storrs 2-5 6-6 12; Breland Hogan 2-7 3-4 8; Nick West 3-3 1-4 7; Justin Ringler 2-9 2-4 7; Mike Przydzial 3-4 0-2 6; Wes Trammell 1-1 2-2 4; Nick Carreri 0-2 1-2 1; K’Len Morris 0-0 0-0 0; Tony Peters 0-1 0-0 0. Totals 17-42 19-31 57.

“They were actually great situations for us to be in,” she said. “We had to be really tough down the stretch in order to be successful. As long as we continue to get key rebounds and free throws when we need them, we’ll continue to be successful.”

But rather than returning players carrying the load, several freshmen stepped up and helped the team finish the trip on a positive note.

Freshman forward Briauna Taylor led the charge against Northwood with 26 points and six rebounds while freshman center Alex Stelfox led all scores against Wayne State with 21 points on 1016 shooting.

Burgess said Stelfox’s progression will be key as the team continues to move forward in the season.

“She’s got a great low post presence,” she said. “She has a feel for where to be around the basket and the ability to score any way when she gets the ball.

Obviously she’s important, and we’ll need to keep getting her the ball and opportunities to score.”

Stelfox, who averaged 11.4

Grand Valley State vs Wayne State

GVSU 69, WAYNE STATE 61 GVSU (14-3,11-1 GLIAC) GVSU............................ 34 35 - 69 Wayne State................. 31 30 - 61

Follow LanthornSports on Twitter for up-tothe-minute coverage of Laker games, players and coaches

teams exchanging the lead, the Lakers took a 30-27 lead heading into the break.

Through the first eight minutes of the second half, the Lakers outscored the Timberwolves 17-7 to help extend their lead to 47-34.

The Timberwolves went on an 8-0 run to slice the lead to 4742 with 9:57 left, but the Lakers pushed the lead back to doubledigits with a 6-0 run capped by baskets from Storrs and junior forward Toreau Brown.

The Laker reserves, who had a 38-4 advantage in bench points, were led by freshman Nick Carreri, who scored 12 points and four steals.

“I haven’t been shooting the ball well this season, but my teammates and coaches just kept telling me to stay confident and shoot the ball,” he said. “They

GVL Archive

Sophomore Alvin Storrs was a key player in the Wayne State game.

just found me in the right spots and I was kind of the beneficiary of being in the right place.”

Next up for the Lakers will be a Thursday night showdown with the University of Findlay (14-3 10-2 GLIAC), which has won 11 straight games.

The winner will take solepossession first place in the GLIAC conference. jgreenleaf@lanthorn.com

3-point goals — GVSU 4-7 (Alvin Storrs 2-3; Breland Hogan 1-1; Justin Ringler 1-1; Nick Carreri 0-2) Wayne State 3-18 (Mike Hollingsworth 1-1; Bryan Wright 1-7; Larry Edwards 1-3; Stacey Waters0-2; Bryan Smothers 0-4; Ian Larkin 0-1) Fouled out — GVSU-None Wayne State-Jerry Oden Rebounds —GVSU 31 (Justin Ringler 8) Wayne State 34 (Ian Larkin 10) Assists —GVSU 7 (Breland Hogan 2; Justin Ringler 2) Wayne State 13 (Larry Edwards 4).

Total fouls — GVSU 15 Wayne State 24 Technical fouls — GVSU-None Wayne State-None

Women extend win streak to 7 GVL Sports Editor

now on

B

Team defense leads men to comeback victory, 4-0 road trip

By Emanuel Johnson

LANTHORN

Grand Valley Lanthorn Monday, January 25, 2010

Alex Stelfox 10-16 1-1 21; Emma Veach 5-11 3-4 13; Briauna Taylor 4-6 1-1 10; Lauren Stodola 3-4 0-0 8; Brittany Taylor 3-3 1-2 7; Kelly Kretz 2-4 0-0 4; Jasmine Padin 0-4 3-4 3; Elizabeth Van Tiflin 1-5 0-0 3; Maddie Burnett 0-0 0-0 0; Kara Crawford 0-4 0-1 0.

Totals 28-57 9-13 69.

points and 4.8 rebounds a game focus on ourselves and grow as a so far this season, said things fell unit.” into place for her against Wayne The two teams may share the State. same conference record at the top “Things just sort of happened of the GLIAC standings, but the that way,” she said. “I actually Huskies boast a starting lineup wanted to focus more on defense comprised entirely of seniors. because I hadn’t played great Although GVSU’s starting defense in the past few games. But lineup is made wholly from my shots were just going in, so I underclassmen, sophomore just kept shooting.”

Jasmine Padin said “Michigan Tech With the road the experience trip behind them, factor will not does have a lot of the Lakers can afford an excuse for veterans on their return home for poor play. team, and we are an extended stay “Michigan Tech in Allendale. But does have a lot of young, but we still the team will not veterans on their get the chance to can’t use that as an team, and we are rest for long — a young, but we still excuse, ever.” nationally ranked can’t use that as JASMINE PADIN No. 5 Michigan an excuse, ever,” GVSU SOPHOMORE Tech University she said. “We’re team awaits GVSU 15 games into the on Thursday. season now — everyone should “Our young team is very know what’s going on and what excited to come home to be in they need to do by now. We just our comfort zone,” Burgess said. have to keep playing the way “I think they’re more excited to we’ve been playing, get stops and be able to host Michigan Tech take advantage of them.” on Thursday night. They’ll be Tip off is set for 6 p.m. on another regular season game for Thursday. us, and we’ll need to continue to sports@lanthorn.com

3-point goals — GVSU 4-16 (Lauren Stodola 2-3; Elizabeth Van Tiflin 1-4; Briauna Taylor 1-2; Kelly Kretz 0-1; Jasmine Padin 0-4; Emma Veach 0-2) Wayne State 9-24 (Chelsea Kouri 3-5; Felicia Thomas 2-6; Brooke Bowers 2-10; Amelia Davis 1-2; Chelsea Davis 1-1) Fouled out — GVSU-Brittany Taylor Wayne State-None Rebounds— GVSU 32 (Emma Veach 6) Wayne State 33 (Deanna Crumpton 6; Amelia Davis 6) Assists — GVSU 12 (Emma Veach 6), Wayne State 16 (Amelia Davis8) Total fouls — GVSU 14 Wayne State 17.

Technical fouls — GVSU-None Wayne State-None

GVL Archive

GVSU guard Emma Veach goes up for a layup during a previous home game.

B2

Monday, January 25, 2010

SPORTS

Grand Valley Lanthorn

Team loyalty disappears from college athletics Emanuel Johnson GVL Sports Editor

When Chuck Martin left Grand Valley State University to take a defensive back coaching position at Notre Dame University, I was a little perplexed. I’d thought he’d at least nab a spot as defensive coordinator, especially since he was leaving a head coaching spot.

But Chuck’s departure from GVSU didn’t bother me. When he left, he had already won two national titles and ensured the

program would not be in a state of chaos without him.

He had been here for six years — it was time for him to move on.

Brian Kelly’s departure from the University of Cincinnati, however, was the most disgusting display of betrayal and self-centralism that I’ve ever seen out of ... pretty much anyone.

He brought that program from the depths of mediocrity and turned it into one of the elite powers in the NCAA. This past season, the Bearcats went undefeated under Kelly’s leadership — had it not been for other teams having similar success, the Bearcats would have been in the national title game.

But rather than stay put and forge a dynasty out of Cincinnati, Kelly decided to chuck up the deuce and hightail it to Notre Dame for a bigger paycheck. He turned his back on the players and the program that helped build him up as a head coach.

Kelly didn’t even have the decency to coach the team in its bowl game against the University of Florida, which the Bearcats ended up losing 51-24. I mean, he might as well have just thrown up a middle finger to the players and the fans on his way out the door.

And I know that I’m supposed to bow down and praise Kelly’s every action because he’s in the

GVSU hall of fame and he helped turn the Lakers into a powerhouse program, but I can’t condone that type selfishness.

I was never a big Notre Dame fan to begin with, but I hope they don’t win a single game next season.

Sorry, Chuck.

Kelly is the biggest portion of a recent trend that saw coaches trading in the promises they made to their players and to their fans for a bigger paycheck.

Lane Kiffin left the University of Tennessee after one successful season for the prestige of coaching at the University of Southern California. The only reason the USC job was available

was because Pete Carroll decided the sanctions the Trojans faced were too much for him (and, yes, he left because of the sanctions, not for the NFL opportunity).

It’s as if coaches are afraid to be successful in their own right — they have to piggyback off of the success of previous coaches at prestigious universities.

But coaches aren’t the only one’s guilty of disloyalty in college athletics. Some players turn their backs on great situations for the money they’ll receive at the professional level.

Take Derrick Rose for example. Rose came two made free throws away from sealing up a national

championship in his first year at the University of Memphis. Two free throws.

I’d think that if you came that close, you’d almost have to come back to finish the job. But rather than giving Memphis just one more year, he left for the NBA. I recognize these are business decisions on the part of people trying to make more money, but there’s something to be said for the individual who casts money aside to help give back to the people that made him. sports@lanthorn.com

See more: “Your Insights” on page A4

Lakers ‘play down’ to Chippewas Failure to adhere to GVSU system results in 3-3 draw with Central Michigan after 7-3 victory in previous game

By Greg Monahan GVL Staff Writer

The first three minutes of the weekend made things look as though it would be an easy couple of games for the Grand Valley State University men’s hockey team. From there on out, it was anything but.

The Lakers scored three goals in the first 2:05 of the first period on Friday, en route to a 7-3 victory against Central Michigan University but failed to show the same energy on Saturday as the team settled for a 3-3 draw against the Chippewas.

Entering the series ranked come out to play and thought significantly higher than CMU we had the game won before it and boasting a much better even started.”

Despite taking the first record, the Lakers hoped the two matchups would be a tune- game of the series by a fourgoal margin, up for a much GVSU head more difficult “In both games coach Mike stretch of we got outside the Forbes was games ahead. not pleased After falling system and the with his team’s down quickly structure that we performance on Friday, have had so much on Friday or however, the Saturday.

Chippewas success with.”

“In both stood toe-toMIKE FORBES games we got toe with the GVSU HEAD COACH outside the Lakers for system and the the rest of the structure that weekend.

“Coming into this weekend, we have had so much success in the back of our minds we with,” he said. “I think that kind of knew that Central happens when you go against a wasn’t as good of a team as we team that you perceive to be a are,” said junior defenseman weaker team, you take chances Jake Ochsner. “The tendency offensively and defensively, when you play teams like and I think we got a little bit that is to play down to their lazy.”

Forbes added the team’s level, and that was the case this weekend. We didn’t really margin of victory on Friday

may have disguised the actual level at which they played.

“The problem is, if you have success with (bad play), the players don’t realize that what they’re doing isn’t working,” he said. “If you play a game like we did last night when you don’t adhere to our system and don’t play your own game, but win 7-3, you think that you can continue with that behavior and not pay a price for that, and (on Saturday) we did pay a price for that. Hopefully we’ll learn from that.”

Things will only get more difficult for the Lakers in the following weeks as they take on the top two teams in the

American Collegiate Hockey Association, Davenport University and Michigan State University. The Lakers know to have success in the next two weeks, they must pick up their play.

“We’re going to bring all we’ve got in the next couple weeks,” said senior goalie Grant Lyon. “We’re playing the best teams in the region, and we can’t make the mistakes we did against Central. If we play the way we did this weekend against these two teams, they’re going to stomp all over us.” gmonahan@lanthorn.com

GVL / Brian B. Sevald

Ryan Welch looks to the center for a shot on the Central Michigan goal. The Lakers won 7-3 on Friday and then tied on Saturday.

SPORTS

Grand Valley Lanthorn

Monday, January 25, 2010

B3

Swimmers overcome rough weekend travel for 4 wins

By Curtis Kalleward GVL Staff Writer

Grand Valley State University’s men’s and women’s swimming and diving teams endured 11 hours of bus travel, little sleep and the fierce competition of back-to-back road meets to claim four victories this weekend.

The men and women defeated Hope College 199-92 and 192-103, respectively, late Friday in Holland. The athletes caught a few hours of rest before waking up early Saturday and heading south to take on the University of Indianapolis.

The women sunk the Greyhounds 142.5-91.5 while the men won 162-78.

“We had a good few days of competition,” said GVSU head coach Andy Boyce. “Some people are turning in their best times of the year.”

The lack of proper rest Friday night and the amount of traveling on Saturday had the potential to harm the swimmers’ abilities heading into Indianapolis, especially after having just raced the

GVL / Luke Hotwagner

Freshman Amy Reynolds prepares to vault in Friday’s meet. The women’s cross country and track and field teams were awarded the 2008-09 Div. II Program of the Year Award during the meet.

Lakers battle fatigue at Bob Eubanks Open

By Aaron Brandt GVL Staff Writer

Friday did not turn out to be a record-setting day for the Grand Valley State University indoor track team, but it was an important day for its overall progression.

GVSU used this past Friday’s Bob Eubanks Open meet as an unscored training session in preparation for future meets. The result was satisfactory to GVSU head coach Jerry Baltes.

“This meet was OK, and that’s a good way to sum it up,” Baltes said.

“There were not too many spectaculars but a few good things. Hopefully we come out of it healthy and keep progressing.”

The health of the team was a major issue at the meet, as fatigue built up from several weeks of difficult training caught up to the team.

“We are coming off of a really hard lifting program right now, so everyone’s kind of dragging, but we’ve had a lot of personal bests for everyone,” said senior thrower Emily Fox. “After we get into competition mode for training, everyone’s going to blow up even more.”

Baltes, too, noticed his team was worn out on Friday.

“We’re tired right now, so hopefully by backing off the next couple of weeks we will see some positive results,” he said. “We’re getting back in the swing of things schoolwise and we’re training pretty hard, so everything is just sort of catching up.”

The solution to this lull is in the hands of the athletes, said senior Joey Latz.

“We just have to use our heads, train right and get our bodies plenty of rest and the adequate nutrition they need to repair themselves,” he said. “As runners, we pretty much go hard every week; even in our off days we are still going out there and breaking a sweat.”

Even with their tired legs, the Lakers were able to come up with a few solid performances. Several Lakers provisionally qualified for the NCAA national meet.

Senior Lauren Bergstrom, and sophomores Chanelle Caldwell, Karie McDonald and Monica Kinney all provisionally qualified in the 800-meter run in which the team took the top five positions. Sophomore Emily McKerchie also qualified in the pole vault with a jump of 11-9 3/4.

Junior Lauren Buresh won the shot put with a distance of 45-5 1/4 while senior Maegan Doyen won the high jump with a mark of 5-5 3/4.

For the men, senior Nate

Miller won the high jump with a mark of 6-8 3/4, junior Nathaniel Smith won the triple jump with a mark of 45-1 and sophomore Matt Armstrong won the shot put with a toss of 53-3.

Looking to the future, the team will begin to resemble its final form starting with the GVSU Open on Jan. 27.

“A lot of kids will get back to their primary events,” said Baltes. “Our quarter milers will run the quarter mile and the men’s 800 guys are going to run the 800, so really it’s the first time we open up

their main event.”

In the meantime, the team has done a great job of working hard, regardless of the distance, Latz said.

“There were a lot of people that ran different events than they usually do, but it was nice to see some of those kids come out and compete,” he said. “It was good to see them have that determination and fire in their eyes, which they are going to need for the conference meet.” abrandt@lanthorn.com

GVL / Luke Hotwagner

Tyler Emmorey leads the GVSU men in the 3K on Friday.

GVL Archive

The men’s team has next weekend off to prepare for the GLIAC Championships in two weeks.

night before.

“The travel made it tough driving down to Indy after competing Friday night,” Boyce said.

“It was especially encouraging to see the long distance swimmers do well one night and then get right back up and do it again the next day.”

Junior swimmer Kim Baughman said she felt the busy schedule did not hinder the performances of herself and her teammates, and said she could have handled staying on the road all night just as well.

“We’re all used to traveling and we stay focused when we’re at motels,” she said. “It was nice to sleep in my own bed (Friday night), but sleeping in motels doesn’t disrupt our performances.”

Senior swimmer Matt Witkowski, however, had a different take on the situation. He reiterated Baughman’s thoughts on staying focused, but added the hectic two days had begun to take its toll on the teams.

“It was a long weekend,” he said. “Everyone was really tired after Hope because we got done so late Friday and we had to be right back on the bus Saturday morning. We were able to survive the travel and come away with some wins, but it always feels nicer to have a home meet instead of traveling so much.”

The victory over Indianapolis concluded an undefeated season in the GLIAC for the men.

“We’re happy to be done (for the season),” Witkowski said. “It feels good to be able to breathe for a moment. This sets us up better to go after one of our main goals from the beginning of the season, which was to win conferences. Going undefeated gives us momentum heading there.”

The weekend meets marked the final time this season when both teams would be in the same pool. The women will host Northern Michigan University this weekend while the men have the weekend off.

“It was the last time that the men and women competed together, so it was really nice that we could win after traveling together all weekend,” Baughman said. “Northern is part of our conference so we still take them seriously. We’ll take the day off Sunday and then we’ll go right back to full practices until after Northern.”

Witkowski said the men will enjoy having a weekend off and spend it supporting their female compatriots.

“We’re going to be there for the girls cheering for them, but we’re still glad that we can just do a workout day on Saturday rather than competing,” Witkowski said.

The men will not see action until the GLIAC Championships in two weeks. ckalleward@lanthorn.com

B4

Grand Valley Lanthorn Monday, January 25, 2010

A&E

Haley Otman, A&E Editor arts@lanthorn.com

WGVU film commemorates Auschwitz anniversary with tale of Holocaust survivors grew up, as well as the Auschwitz concentration camp where they were later interned.

“I have never been involved with a film where It has been 65 years since the concentration you stand there and listen to these women say, camp in Auschwitz, Germany was liberated in ‘I almost died here,’” Walenta said. “It is very World War II, but of the few who survived to tell moving, very emotional.” the story, most were hesitant to revisit it.

Both women narrowly escaped the gas For Tova Friedman, a prisoner of Auschwitz, chambers at Auschwitz. telling her experience as a survivor of the Walenta said Friedman’s aunt was the only concentration camp is both a chance to benefit and other member of her family to survive the camp, influence future generations and come to terms but was murdered in a jewelry store by a mob with her own memories. shortly after liberation.

In 2005, WGVU traveled with Friedman and “I am very proud to be a part of this moving her friend Frieda Tenenbaum, production,” he said. “We need to also an Auschwitz survivor, to remember (discrimination) is still “ (Life) has so many film the documentary “Surviving on there today.” positive things; we going Auschwitz: Children of the Friedman said she believes Shoah.” The documentary can do so much “if you understand the past you details the pair’s experience in know how to do the future.” good in spite of the the concentration camp, the final “I believe it is very important liberation and the struggles bad.” to relive it in some way as an adult they faced then and now. where I know I’m safe and secure TOVA FRIEDMAN “Surviving Auschwitz: AUSCHWITZ SURVIVOR and can emotionally come from Children of the Shoah” it,” Friedman said. “It had its high will be shown four times moments and low moments.” this month with a discussion following led Friedman was only 6 years old when she

by Friedman in celebration of her 65-year entered the concentration camp, but remembers anniversary of liberation. most of her experience. She said she believes WGVU’s General Manager Michael being so young helped her to cope with it because Walenta, who has known Friedman for she never knew what life was like before the war. many years, joined the film crew for the With the showing of the documentary, three weeks they were in Europe to shoot the she said she hopes it will prevent it documentary. from happening again.

Friedman, Tenenbaum and other members “You can see how hate and of the production team visited the Polish town prejudice can start Tomaszów Mazowiecki, where the women and become

By Danielle Slabbekoorn GVL Staff Writer

Courtesy Photo / WGVU

Tova Friedman was 6 when in Auschwitz.

like a cancer; people need to be more vigilant,” Friedman said.

Professor Jason Crouthamel of GVSU’s history department said Auschwitz was one of the main extermination camps built by the Nazis during World War II and was responsible for 1.3 million deaths between 1941 and 1945.

Two million of the six million killed during the Holocaust were children.

“Auschwitz is a key part of the history of the Holocaust,” Crouthamel said. “Its existence is a symbol of the consequences of racism, hatred and prejudice, and it serves as a legacy for our own society to think of our responsibilities to protect civil and human rights.”

Friedman now lives in New Jersey and has four children and six grandchildren but said she wishes she could have a child for every one that was killed during the Holocaust. She was the director of a nonprofit organization for 21 years and at 71 years old, still works

Courtesy Photo / WGVU

Two million children died during the Holocaust.

part-time as a social worker.

“Life is so wonderful in so many ways,” Friedman said. “It has so many positive things; we can do so much good in spite of the bad.”

Showings of the documentary will be Wednesday at 4 p.m. at the Hope College Maas Center Auditorium and Thursday at 2 p.m. at the Grand Rapids Civic Theater. Both are open to the public with free admission. dslabbekoorn@lanthorn.com

Courtesy Photo / WGVU

To mark the 65-year anniversary of the liberation of the concentration camp in Auschwitz, Germany, survivor Tova Friedman will share her experiences in a documentary produced by WGVU’s Michael Walenta.

A cappella group Euphoria bound for international competition

By Haley Otman GVL A&E Editor

When Aaron Vince transferred to Grand Valley State University at the beginning of his sophomore year, he got the same advice time and again.

“Everyone was telling me, ‘You need to check out Euphoria when you get here!’” Vince said.

The tenor decided to audition for the student organization and made the cut.

Now Euphoria’s entire group is scheduled represent GVSU at an international singing competition, in addition to their regular on-campus performances and impromptu a cappella sessions in the Kirkhof Center.

Euphoria’s main mission right now is to practice constantly for a great showing at the International Competition of Collegiate A Cappella on Saturday.

“We’re the second (GVSU) group to be accepted, the first group in seven years,” said Ross Hammond, Euphoria president. “It’s a pretty big honor.”

To prepare for the competition, Euphoria has increased its weekly practice time from five to seven hours. They originally planned for the competition to be a month later than it is, so now rehearsals are especially vital in final preparations.

“It’s getting really serious now ... before it was just really laid back,” said third-semester Euphoria member Andy Rodriguez. “It’s a huge competition!”

Euphoria is preparing three songs for the ICCA: “Promiscuback,” a song featuring “Promiscuous”

by Nelly Furtado and “SexyBack” by Justin Timberlake, “Always Be My Baby” by Mariah Carey and “Crazy” by Knarls Barkley.

“It’s untraditional a cappella,” Hammond said. “We make the background noises with our voices.”

Euphoria spent eight hours last Sunday on a rehearsal to fine-tune their chops.

“We found out that we got in right at the end of November,” Vince said, and practices have been lengthening ever since.

Euphoria is hoping to beat out groups from all across the country, as well as some from South Africa and Europe.

While the 14 to 16 member group does have a perfected set list, members continually think of new songs to bring to each semester’s song search.

Last year, Euphoria was able to record their talents in the form of a studio album.

“We got really lucky and we got free studio time last year,” Hammond said.

An alumnus of GVSU and Euphoria, who works in a recording studio, was able to get the group some mic time to record, although Vince said the album is really only a literal recording of the group singing.

“They’re professionally done, but they’re nothing special,” he said.

Although the group is now spending most of its time preparing for the competition, members said the GVSU campus community can expect Euphoria to continue performing periodically on campus. Their spring concert in set for March 26 in the Cook-DeWitt Center and other opportunities have been planned to give the campus a musical treat.

“We are kind of well known, we might say notorious, for running into Kirkhof and singing for 30 minutes,” Vince said. arts@lanthorn.com

GVL / Brian B. Sevald

A capella group Euphoria will compete at the International Competition of Collegiate A Capella on Saturday. This group is only the second group from GVSU to ever be accepted to the competition.

MARKETPLACE Roommates Looking for 1 female SUBLEASER for this SUMMER May til beginning of August Meadows Crossing Rent is 419 per month.

Apartment style A I live only 20 minutes from here so it''s pointless to stay in the apt all summer.The other 3 girls nice and very easy to get along with! If you''re interested let me know ASAP! email me at kierstyrae10@yahoo.com

Employment Bartenders wanted. Up to $250/Day. No Experience necessary. Training provided.

Age 18+ Okay. Call 1-800-965-6520. ext. 226.

Housing The Village at 48 West. Stop in Today! Rates starting at only $395! 616.895.2400 or www.48west.com for more info Boltwood Apartments Now Leasing. 1 and 2 bedroom. Walk ins welcome.

616 895 5875 randres@accesspmgroup.co m Copper Beech Townhomes...the most space for the best price! 1, 2, 3, or 4 bedroom units! Located in Allendale on 48th Street. Call 616-895-2900 or visit copprbeechtownhomes.com for more information.

House for rent 1147 Veto St. Newer four bedroom house downtown GR. close to downtown campus one block from bus stop. Well utilities 1400 per month 350 per bedroom 269-720-9544 Grand Rapids-1minute walk to GVSU Pew. Available Summer. Studio-$350, 1 bedroom-$425, 3 bedroom-$700, 4 bedroon-$750. Plus utilities. www.grLease.com 616-293-6606 Large 6 bedroom 2 1/2 bath.

House for rent starting May 1, 2001. Each bedroom is oversized. Home has a huge fenced in backyard with volleyball court and fire pit.

Rent includes all utilities, trash, wireless Internet/cable TV, and full laundry. Also partially furnished conveniently located on Lake Michigan Dr. yet still secluded.

Please e-mail to dkfaul@sbcglobal.net or call Kelly at 616-453-0923

Miscellaneous Hungry Howie’s in Allendale has AMAZING specials just for GVSU! Look inside the paper to find them! WE DELIVER! Call 616-895-6777 or order online @ hungryhowies.com

Favorite Characters

by Joshua Kovach Across 1. Heavenly patron for priests, inf.

5. It may have scales or feathers 8. Some call it “pop” 12. Skewered meal 14. Arwen or Faye actress 15. Lord's betrayer 16. Flash maker 17. Marty's girlfriend, in sequels 19. Graphic description 21. Six-pack?

22. Everything 23. Toy by BLAMMO 25. Descartes conclusion 28. Son of Vader 32. Cheat 34. Beginner's batting tool 35. Can't do it by zero 37. Palin impersonator Fey 38. “District 9” country (abbr.)

39. “___-haw” 40. MS Windows install stopper 42. Deafening noise 43. Former red giant?

45. Like a clear night 47. Jurassic Park dissenter 48. A head of France 49. Solo's companion 51. Acid acronym 52. Home loan assoc.

53. Negative element 54. Swiss stream 56. Film for the fam.

60. Scott and Todd Howard 65. Hand warmer 66. None better 67. ____ mode 68. Really awful 69. Aykroyd and Radcliffe 70. Automaton, for short 71. Biological byte

2010-2011

SHORTEST Walking Distance PRIVATE Shuttle for Convenience BROADBAND Internet and CABLE Included FURNISHED is an Option

Sunday, February 7th

Campus View’s Community Center

1

1

1

1

11

1 11

11

11

11

11

11

11

11

11

11 11

11

11

11

11

11

11

11

11

11 11

11 11

11

11

11

11 11

11 11

11

11

11

11

11 11

1

11

11

11

1

B5

11

11

11

11

1

11

11

11

1

Grand Valley Lanthorn Monday, January 25, 2010

11

11

11 11

11

11

11

11

Down 1. Card game for three 2. Verbal fanfare 3. Bizarro Fett 4. Law blogger Bob 5. Moldy cheese 6. Lubricant 7. Digital video ext.

8. Exist 9. Poetic tribute 10. Not “dis” 11. Phoenix source 13. “No rain” queen 15. Forceful poke 18. Erratic move 20. Partners 23. Floral wreath 24. Excrement 26. Like oranges and batteries 27. “Flashdance” hit 28. Support or swagger

11

11

11

11

11 11 11

29. Solo's famous run 30. Risers?

31. Whine and complain 33. Gift from heaven 36. Creeper with pincers 41. Biomechanical beings 44. Fiery colony members 46. “Eureka!”

50. Digital's predecessor 52. One of two ways 55. Shock and ____ 56. H.S. junior's exam 57. 25-across, as an infinitive 58. Novelist Hunter 59. Avalon hit “____ Dinah” 60. Cheers actor Danson 61. Note of Guido's scale 62. Furry Bebop passenger 63. Place for chemicals or computers 64. Perky Progressive Rep.

Solutions at Lanthorn. com

B6

A&E

Monday, January 25, 2010

Grand Valley Lanthorn

Three GV theatre students lead GR production

By Coty Levandoski GVL Staff Writer

Three Grand Valley State University theatre students have made the move from campus to the Grand Rapids Civic Theatre to perform together in “Moon Over Buffalo.”

The play follows George and Charlotte Hay, fading stage stars of the ‘50s, as a couple appearing with a repertory company in Buffalo, N.Y. With both their marriage and their careers in shambles, the duo soon learns that director Frank Capra resides in the audience scouting them for film roles. Naturally, things go awry, mainly the couple’s mix up of the repertory’s two productions: “Private Lives” and “Cyrano de Bergerac.”

“Ken Ludwig is one of my favorite playwrights, and I’m a big comedy buff,” said Alex Kempsell, a current theatre major at GVSU who plays the part of Howard, a nervous wreck of a boy who idolizes the Hays as he romances their daughter, Rosalind. “‘Moon Over Buffalo’ is a good oldfashioned farce.”

Set in 1953, “Moon Over Buffalo” is a snapshot of American life in that particular time period, a welcome change of pace for a cast steeped with experience in Shakespearean theater.

“Most of the work I’ve done has been classical, so ‘Moon’ is a fun shift in style and pace for me,” said Julie Kehr.

An alumna of GVSU, Kehr plays Rosalind to Kempsell’s Howard.

“The audiences seem to be more in tune with the plight of the characters because they don’t have to sift through

early modern language to understand the humor and the overall meaning of the play,” she said.

Along with venturing outside of their normal routines and expanding their resumes, having GVSU theatre majors perform outside of the university and their comfort zone encourages their peers to follow suit, Kehr added.

Typical Civic Theatre shows run for a period of three weeks, excluding Mondays and Tuesdays, which differs from weekend performances held at the Louis Armstrong Theatre on GVSU’s Allendale Campus.

“Moon Over Buffalo” began its run on Jan. 15 and will continue through Sunday.

“Every show is unique based on the people involved,” said Candice Rowland, also a GVSU theatre graduate. “We were very lucky to have an excellent group of volunteers for this show, both cast and crew, which led to a great production that audiences really seem to enjoy.”

“Unique” also carries over to director Bruce Tinker’s description of having three GVSU theatre students

performing together in “Moon Over Buffalo.”

“Alex (Kempsell), Julie (Kehr) and Candice (Rowland) are all three skilled and trained actors,” he said. “They have as much experience as the majority of the non-students in the production, The greatest advantage to being a young actor is having their enthusiasm and energy.”

Although Tinker noticed the three studied at the same school, he contends each one of them is an actor all their own.

“Certainly (with) having a percentage of the cast share a perspective because of similar background and training, like the GVSU students, it is easier to find those points of common ground,” Tinker said.

“However, you still interact and motivate actors as the individuals they are.”

Tickets range from $25 for adults to $14 for children, students and senior citizens.

Tickets can be purchased online at http://www.startickets.com, in person at the GR Civic Theatre box office or the day of any performance two hours before the show. clevandoski@lanthorn.com

Courtesy Photo / T.J. Hamilton The Grand Rapids Press

Current GVSU theatre student Alex Kempsell enters stage left.

Tuesday’s CD and DVD releases CD • • • •

Lady Antebellum: “Need You Now” Corinne Bailey Rae: “The Sea” Patty Griffin: “Downtown Church” Owl City: “Ocean Eyes (Deluxe Edition)”

DVD • “Michael Jackson: This Is It” • “Bright Star” • “Surrogates” • “Whip It” • “I Hope They Serve Beer in Hell”

Courtesy Photo / Hollyn Johnson, The Grand Rapids Press

“The Gift of All, A Community of Givers,” directed by Daniel Garcia, tells of Grand Rapids’ generosity.

Documentary highlights Grand Rapids’ philanthropy

By Josh Brunsting GVL Staff Writer

A new film hopes to shed a little bit of light on one particular aspect of the long history of Grand Rapids, one that is not well known to many at Grand Valley State University: the town’s history of philanthropy and volunteering.

“The Gift of All, A Community of Givers” is a new documentary film that tells the story of people who have given back to the community either by donating time, expertise or money.

“It looks to the past to tell the story of the influences in their early lives,” said John Morrison, producer of the film. “It also looks to the future by inspiring the viewer to give to their community in a way that is appropriate to them.”

The project started out as a group of local historians working together to capture and preserve the stories of Grand Rapids area philanthropists in their 70s or older.

“I was one of those historians,” Morrison said.

“I felt that this was truly an important story that nobody had ever really done anything on or like it. It is just too important of a story within the history of Grand Rapids,

The idea of community is that it had to be told.”

How did Grand Rapids one that does not seem to be become a city so deeply changing anytime soon within rooted in volunteering and the area.

“The future of Grand philanthropy? This is the question at the heart of “The Rapids will be based around the direction that our young Gift of All.” “Really, there is no simple people take it,” said director answer to that question,” said Daniel Garcia. “We who executive producer Pamela worked on the project truly hope that Daugavietis. it will stay “Many were “GVSU wouldn’t be thriving and motivated here today without prosperous, simply by the and the city’s culture, philanthropy.” history of where in Grand the town has Rapids, work proven that ethic is strong as PAMELA that may just is each person’s DAUGAVIETIS be the case.” faith ... Every EXECUTIVE PRODUCER So what story is really is the end unique though, which makes the film all the outcome of the film, and what do the creators hope the more interesting.”

The Grand Rapids area viewers take away from it?

“I hope those who see was recently revealed as the second most-giving the film will ask themselves, community in the U.S., only ‘What can I do to help others? behind Nashville, Tenn., so What is my gift that makes the idea of giving back is a me unique that I can use concept at the heart of the to serve my community?’”

Daugavietis said. “Peace and city.

“GVSU wouldn’t be here prosperity in the world begins today without philanthropy,” with peace within ourselves, Daugavietis said. “Spectrum peace in the family and Health, Helen DeVos peace and prosperity in the Children’s Hospital, St. community.”

There will be a screening Mary’s and the Grand Rapids Art Museum wouldn’t be of the film in the Bike Factory here without philanthropy on GVSU’s Pew Campus on either, so without it, this town Wednesday at 11:30 a.m. jbrunsting@lanthorn.com wouldn’t look the same.”